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But it is increasingly apparent that effective development depends on citizens’ ability to hold public institutions accountable.
Legal empowerment is a public good: it renders governments more accountable, and makes development more equitable.
The possibility of being rejected in a real election would naturally make board members accountable to shareholders, indirectly making the executives accountable as well.
Creating a fully modernized and accountable security service requires more than technocratic tinkering.
Only then might the political, economic, and social roadblocks to creating modern, accountable security services be overcome.
It turns out that most state bureaucracies, theoretically accountable to the public, in fact are accountable to the parties, and do everything they can to keep Americans Elect from claiming its right to a spot on the ballot next fall.
If the point is to replace our current governments with more accountable models, we need to use new online tools not only to throw out the old, but also to bring in the new.
While liberal democracies empower experts in, say, administrative and judicial positions, they are always accountable, if only indirectly, to democratically elected leaders.
We consider measures to make the UN Secretariat more efficient, effective, transparent, and accountable to be in the interest of all member states.
But the details of a more democratic EU, in which the Commission would be made truly accountable to the public, are less important than the political will to move forward.
Though they may not be perfect – and, unfortunately, the countries that ratify them do not always achieve the targets – they have led to the creation of institutional processes that encourage countries to meet their promises and embolden citizens to hold governments accountable.
Given Hamas’s leading role, it will be held accountable not only for the success of Gaza’s reconstruction, but also for any further delays in Palestinian reconciliation.
Voters have a way of holding elected officials accountable for their pronouncements.
The UN can be a much more effective instrument if its member states in the General Assembly and the Security Council are better organized and give clearer directives to us in the Secretariat – along with the flexibility to carry them out – and then hold us clearly accountable.
Two stand out: a largely uncorrupt, efficient, transparent, and accountable government, and an open and competitive economy.
In his recent speech before the US Congress, Macron called for a “new breed of multilateralism … effective, accountable and results-oriented,” a multilateralism that “will allow our cultures and identities to be respected, to be protected, and to flourish freely together.”
Isn’t it normal to create some means of holding ministers accountable?
With little oversight from the central government, and no independent judiciary or a free press to hold them accountable, local authorities in rural areas are often a law unto themselves.
For democracies to thrive, government must be transparent as well as publicly accountable.
Although the Fed’s legal “independence” means that the White House cannot tell the Fed what to do, the Fed is fully accountable to Congress.
The sources of public administration failure include lack of professionalism in the civil service; vague, complex, and confusing legal rules; weak management of government finances; poor distribution of tasks across levels of government; lack of transparency in government processes, and the difficulty of holding officials accountable for their actions.
While it may be convenient to hold others accountable for America’s problems, this is bad economics driving bad politics.
The court ruled that Parliament had failed to hold the president accountable in a scandal concerning diverted state funds.
It will ensure financial stability, increase transparency, make the banking sector accountable, and protect taxpayers’ money.
To preempt what they called “state control,” the newspaper proprietors set up an Independent Press Standards Organization (IPSO), accountable to no one but itself.
As a result, businesses are much more accountable, often in very specific ways, which creates powerful incentives to improve service.
But rendering Europe’s political institutions accountable to citizens is only half the battle.
The first possibility, which First Minister Alex Salmond appears to have in mind, would entail a monetary union under a central bank accountable both to Scotland and the rump UK.
Employees learned in the experiments that employers largely could be trusted to give such bonuses as a reward for hard work, even though no one could hold them formally accountable if they selfishly refused.
But combining market integration with democracy requires the creation of supranational political institutions that are representative and accountable.
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